June 2025

The full story of our 10 year journey on the synthesis of Ginkgolides has been published in JOC, check it out !

April 2025

Our newest publication on hydroalkylation of C(sp3)-H acids is out in Chem. Eur. J. We say goodbye to Britt and welcome undergrads Eve, Ana and Kéliane for the summer!

September 2024

We welcome Britt Halvorsen to the Barriault lab for her Honours project and say goodbye to Elliott and thank him for a great summer among us!

May 2024

Congrats to Dr. Chris Wicks for a great thesis defense. We wish him luck in his endeavors at Gilead!

Welcome to Joshua Tapp (M.Sc) and Elliott Jackson (Summer internship) to the Barriault lab!

March 2024

Our work on Cerium-catalyzed photoredox cleavage of O-H bonds is out in Chem. Eur. J, Congrats Avery!

Febuary 2024

Congratulations to Soufian for publishing his review on Salvinorin A & its analogues in Chem. Cat. Chem. !

January 2024

We welcome Timothée as the newest addition to the Barriault group, who is starting his post-doctoral fellowship!

November 2023

The lab was in Montreal for the QOMSBOC symposium (Concordia U.) this year, Congrats to Chris for presenting his poster & Chad for winning an award for his talk!

Our review on photochemically generated radicals has been published in Chem. Cat. Chem. Great work from Tegan, Avery & Lucas!

June 2023

Congratulations to Huy & Philippe for publishing a formal total synthesis of Salvinorin A in Chem. Eur. J. !

May 2023

Congratulations to Dr. André Costisella for brilliantly defending his doctoral thesis and wish him luck for his new position at Gilead !

Welcome to our new students Soufian Tibouti (Ph.D) and Vamika (Honours) !

Congratulations to Chad for winning best overall presentation at this year’s OCCI symposium !

September 2022

Congratulations to Martin and Gabriel for achieving the first total synthesis of Ginkgolide C & formal syntheses of Ginkgolide A & B, published in JACS!

August 2022

Congratulations to Dr Huy Tran, Dr Martin Hébert, Dr Montserrat Zidan and Victor Borba for successfully defending their theses! We now welcome our new students Chris, Kian, Julia and Akvile to fill in the ranks!

June 13-17 2022

Avery, Tegan and Chad were present the 2022 edition of the CCCE symposium in Calgary, AB to present their most recent research!

Nov 1 2021

Congratulations to Huy for his recent publication in Angewandte!

Sept 1 2021

Welcome to our new student Lucas who arrived from Brasil for his Ph.D!

June 1 2021

Welcome to our new Ph.D student Chad!

Oct 11 2020

Congratulations to Montse for her most recent publication in Organic Letters!

Feb 6, 2020

Congratulations to Samantha on successfully defending her masters thesis! We wish her luck in her new position at the Canadian Bank Note Company!

Dec 9, 2019

Congratulations to Alyson on successfully defending her masters thesis! We wish her luck in her new position at Transport Canada!

Aug 5, 2019

Welcome to our new student: Tegan O’Brien (MSc.)!

May 1, 2019

Welcome to our new summer student Weldon Blastora (Honors)!

November 2018

Congrats to Montse for winning the poster prize at QOMSBOC 2019 in Ottawa!

Congrats to Sam, Avery, and Terry! Their recent paper got the Frontispiece Cover on Angewandte Chemie!

Oct 26, 2018,

Congrats to Montse, Sam, and Terry for their mini-review in Catalysis Science and Technology on “Recent Advances in Mono and Binuclear Gold Photoredox Catalysis”!

Oct 8, 2018

Congrats to Sam, Avery, and Terry for their HAT methodology being accepted in Angewandte Chemie!

July 9, 2018,

Samantha and Avery’s first paper titled: “Transformations of Isonitriles with Bromoalkanes using Photoredox Gold Catalysis” was accepted in JOC!

July 6, 2018

Congrats to Avery for winning the poster prize at CSC 2018 in Edmonton!

July 1, 2018

Congrats to Louis for his appointment as Dean of Science!

May 28, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Terry McCallum on successfully defending his doctoral thesis! We wish him luck in his post-doc with Prof. Song Lin (Cornell University)!

May 1, 2018

Welcome to our new summer students Victor (Honors) and Daniel (Undergraduate)!

September 11, 2017

Congrats to Terry, Spencer, and Matt for their accepted manuscript in Chemical Science on photochemical alkylation in collaboration with Tito Scaiano!

September 4, 2017

Welcome to our new students: Samantha Rohe (MSc.), Andre Costisella (MSc.), and Rowan Swann (CO-OP)!

June 16, 2017

Congrats to Dr. Mathieu Morin on successfully defending his doctoral thesis! We wish him luck in his post-doc with Prof. Mick Sherburn (ANU Canberra)!

May 1, 2017

Welcome to our new graduate student: Montse Zidan (MSc.), and our undergraduate students: Alyson Poyser (Honors) and Avery Morris (Honors)!

January 11, 2017

Our new site is live! Take a look at recent research efforts in photoredox chemistry and our new photo section!

January 8, 2017

Farewell to Sam Rohe, our undergrad who is doing a research placement with Prof. Sherburn (ANU) before returning to start her master’s program! And also to Dr. Amandine Xolin who accepted an offer at Paraza Pharma (Montreal)!